BILL NUMBER: SCR 22	CHAPTERED  02/18/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   21
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   FEBRUARY 18, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   FEBRUARY 11, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JANUARY 27, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JANUARY 4, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Solis

                        MARCH 1, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 22--Relative to College Awareness
Month.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 22, Solis.   College Awareness Month.
   This measure would proclaim February 2000 to be "College Awareness
Month."  This measure would urge California residents to encourage
elementary and secondary school pupils to succeed in their academic
endeavors so they may earn a college education and contribute to the
economic, social, and political future of California.




   WHEREAS, The California Education Round Table and its
Intersegmental Coordinating Committee are sponsoring February 2000 as
"College Awareness Month"; and
   WHEREAS, California needs a college-educated workforce in order to
maintain a strong and vibrant economy, a cohesive society, and an
effective democracy; and
   WHEREAS, Pupils have to learn the skills, competencies, and
behaviors that will enable them to have a variety of choices after
high school graduation, including entering and succeeding in college;
and
   WHEREAS, California is disadvantaged when pupils leave high school
before they graduate--a situation that happens too frequently--or
graduate without the skills that are necessary to participate
productively in the state's future; and
   WHEREAS, Parents have important responsibilities in encouraging
their daughters and sons to master the skills in elementary and
secondary school that will prepare them to pursue a college
education; and
   WHEREAS, California's educational community will be conducting a
statewide campaign during the month of February to provide parents
with information in the appropriate language that will assist them in
serving as academic advisers and financial planners for their
daughters and sons so that they can graduate from college; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
hereby supports the actions of the California Education Round Table
by proclaiming February 2000 as "College Awareness Month"; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Legislature urges the residents of California
to encourage elementary and secondary school pupils to succeed in
their academic endeavors so that they may earn a college education
and contribute to the economic, social, and political future of this
state; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Governor, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and the California Education Round Table.
